Memorial Day Memories

For Memorial Day 2012 we went to Cedar City and went camping.  James had off the week before Memorial Day so the whole family loaded up and drove south.  First we spent a few days in Cedar City visiting family and friends.  We stayed at a the Holiday Inn Express in the south part of town.  They have an indoor pool there so of course we (the boys) had to do some swimming.  We also had dinner with our friends Mark and Patti and their kids at the Chicken Coop, its a new restaurant located on Main Street.  We always love hanging out with the Wellers!

   

Then, on Thursday morning we loaded up and drove up Beaver Canyon to camp at Fish Lake.  After getting a campsite, getting everything unloaded and set up we decided it was too cold up there for tent camping with the little boys so we packed up all our gear and headed further south to warmer weather.  We finally got to St George around 1am.  The little boys and I were dropped off at a hotel while James, Bailey, Josten and Bailey's friend Eric went to Baker Reservoir to set up camp.  James came back to the hotel room around 3am and stayed with me and the boys while the older kids stayed at the Reservoir.  My dad and Kimmie met us up there for a couple days of camping, fishing, 4X4ing and just hanging out with family.  It was really windy, almost too windy but luckily it was warmer than Fish Lake!  We had a great time and Connor really does love camping, just like his older brother Asher!

   

Connor...One Year Later

Yes, its August and Connor turned a year old in May.  Yes, I have neglected this blog for many months.  Yes, I'm going to try and keep it going and yes, I say that often and usually fail at it!  But as long as I keep trying I guess I'm not giving up!

Connor turned one year old on May 19th of 2012.  He is a little monster, and I say that in the lovingest (I guess that isn't a real word) of ways.  He is this spunky little boy who has the biggest of personalities.  He has been walking since April, right after we moved to Rock Springs, WY.  He goes up and down the stairs all by himself already.  He loves being outside more than inside.  And just like Asher, has turned into a complete daddy's boy since he stopped nursing!  What is up with that?  At a year old he had 7 teeth already and weighed close to 20 pounds (actually 19.8lbs).  His favorite toy?  Which ever toy his bigger brother has and won't share with him!  He loves strawberries and whatever drink his daddy is drinking at the time.  If he sees me with my iPhone he practically throws a fit until I give it to him.  I'm sure he'll know how to use that phone better than I do within the next few months.  He isn't fond of long drives, which doesn't work out very well for us since we live so far away from most of our family.  We love him and we are so grateful he is part of our crazy family.

   

Connor...at 9 months

 


This month (2/19/2012) Connor turned 9 months old.  It's hard to believe that he is 9 months old already.  He has been in the world longer than he was in my tummy now.  He is growing so fast.  He has 4 teeth (2 on bottom and 2 on top), he is crawling around the house like crazy, pulls himself up to everything, and is practically feeding himself now!  He is such an adorable little boy, we are so blessed to have him in our lives.

A Smoothie A Day...part 5

Do you know what you make when you have a basket of oranges sitting there waiting to be used?  Well a smoothie with fresh squeezed orange juice of course.  I wanted to make a smoothie that tasted like an Orange Julius.  I haven't had one of those is so long and it sounded so good.  I looked online for a recipe to get me started but I had some issues with the recipes I was finding.  It seems that in order to get that frothy taste that you get from the original Orange Julius you need to add an egg white to the smoothie.  Well, I'm not really excited about adding a raw egg white to something I am not cooking, so I didn't.  I don't think Orange Julius uses a raw egg white but all the recipes I found mentioned using one, or egg white powders which I don't have.  Today's smoothie is....

                          Orangn't Glad It's a Smoothie
                               makes 1 serving
1 frozen banana
1 cup fresh squeezed orange juice
1/2 plain greek yogurt
3 vanilla soy milk ice cubes (about 5-6 tablespoons)
1/2 tablespoon agave nectar
1 large handful of spinach
ice

I bought a large bag, I'm thinking it was a 10lb bag, of oranges at the store a week ago. The little man loves oranges so it was a great deal at only $2.50 for the bag.  It took me 8 large oranges to get a cup of juice, I was surprised it took that many.  Maybe they weren't very juicy oranges.

Yesterday I was curious about the calorie count of my smoothie, now I'm thinking I will go back to the other smoothies and figure out the calories on those as well, and on all the smoothies from now on.

Calories: 367
(banana 105, yogurt 75, orange juice 112, agave 30, soy milk 25, spinach 20)
Fat: less than 1 gram!!!!
(the soy milk has 3.5 grams in 1 cup, I only used 5-6 tablespoons so it has to be less than 1 gram!)


As I said earlier, the little man loves oranges so of course he loved this smoothie.  Since my munchkin (my 8 month old) was also awake he got a chance to try it out and he liked it too.

Connor likes to move it

I took these cute videos of Connor dancing the other day.  I took them with my phone so they aren't the best quality, but I had to share them with everyone...so dang cute!